Purchase Order

Starter
Notes My Usual start, plan is to rush transcendence to get it online ASAP

Hunter's Blessing

Morningstar

Mana Potion

Healing Potion

Healing Potion

Shred Full Build
Notes Core is Trans Warrior and Soul they are the engine of this build

Transcendence

Warrior Tabi

Soul Eater

The Executioner

Qin's Sais

Jotunn's Wrath

Relics
Notes Always Beads, if the opposing team has a Cab or Odin highly recommend getting Phantom Veil instead of Aegis

Purification Beads

Aegis Amulet

Phantom Veil

Medusa's Skill Order

Viper Shot

1X

48111214

Acid Spray

2A

136710

Lacerate

3B

215161819

Petrify

4Y

59131720

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[notes] => For the same reasons as Odin, have to change your relics to get veil or you are going to have a bad day
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[notes] => He will burst you down, position yourselves with your teammates, be prepared to beads and then ult him or charge him to stun and get him low, also never give him your back, use your passive to side away or back away and continue to damage him and out box him
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Medusa' Threats

Maximum

2

Major

1

Even

0

Minor

0

Tiny

0

Click each Level on the left to view Medusa' threats

Cabrakan | Maximum

For the same reasons as Odin, have to change your relics to get veil or you are going to have a bad day

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[notes] => For the same reasons as Odin, have to change your relics to get veil or you are going to have a bad day
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1

Odin | Maximum

If the opposing team has Odin you need to change your relic set up or you are an easy target for the enemy team, you need phantom veil

Loki | Major

He will burst you down, position yourselves with your teammates, be prepared to beads and then ult him or charge him to stun and get him low, also never give him your back, use your passive to side away or back away and continue to damage him and out box him

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[notes] => He will burst you down, position yourselves with your teammates, be prepared to beads and then ult him or charge him to stun and get him low, also never give him your back, use your passive to side away or back away and continue to damage him and out box him
)
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Purchase Order

Starter

Hunter's Blessing

Spiked Gauntlet

Healing Potion

Healing Potion

Mana Potion

Full Build Order
Notes Sell Hunter's Blessing to buy Death Bringer, Sell Ichaival to buy Wind Demon, also change Warrior Boots to Ninja @ end game when the attack speed nets more damage

Devourer's Gauntlet

Warrior Tabi

Ichaival

The Executioner

Poisoned Star

Deathbringer

Wind Demon

Relics
Notes Same as other build if the opposing team has cab or odin grab veil

MEdusa

Medusa can be played incredibly aggressively due to the damage in her Kit. Her burst for a hunter is second only to Ullr, and her Ult can swing team fights if used correctly. She is very easy to learn and my personal favorite god to play in smite.

Lore

All monsters are hideous and fearful, but some are worse than others. There is only one whose hair is made of slithering serpents, only one with skin of scales, and only one whose very gaze can turn man, beast, or God to stone. Medusa, the Gorgon.

Stories claim she was beautiful once. A priestess of Athena. Loyal and devout in action, but Poseidon was determined to make her his own. It was the fairness of her features, the golden of her hair, that attracted the Sea God. Medusa, a mortal maiden, could not refuse.

When Athena learned of Medusa's betrayal, she punished the priestess. Those fair features were hideously wrought and those golden locks twisted to hissing vipers. Anyone that met her eyes was petrified – a statue for all eternity.

Medusa fled, frightened, ashamed and furious. For years she hid from the world, nursing a festering hatred for all things, craving beauty but having none, seeing none, until she became the monster she appeared to be.

She slithers now to the field of battle. Those wretched features concealed behind a cruel mask of porcelain perfection, eyes burning from within. All that she perceives, all that is wonderful in this world, she seeks to destroy. Perhaps then she will be the fairest monster of them all.

Pros/Cons

Pros
Very high Burst Damage
Two stuns (dash and ultimate)
Excellent Clear (can poke and clear at the same time)
Very high damage Ult (ult can swing team fights)

Cons
Very Squishy
Mana Hungry Early Game
Dash can be Body Blocked

Skills

Sidewinder
Medusa suffers no movement penalty when side strafing and half of the movement penalty when moving backward.
Ability Type: Passive

This passive is highly underrated it allows medusa to stafe without penalty which when used properly gives a massive advantage when boxing or engaging the enemy team.

This ability gives Medusa massive burst, on a very short cooldown. I usually queue this up before I engage the enemy team in a team fight or right before I ultimate or dash to make the shots easy confirms and kills. Max this second.
Acid Spray
Medusa hurls back and spits out acid that damages the first enemy hit and sprays out acid in a cone behind them. Acid Spray will explode on statues Medusa has created.
Damage: 90/135/180/225/270 (+70% of your physical power)
Ability Type: Line/Cone
Range: 40/40
Cooldown: 14 seconds
Cost: 60/65/70/75/80 mana

Very good scaling clear with decent base damage. You max this first. It is a line attack, once it hits the first target it creates a cone behind the target hit. Can clear waves and poke enemy team at the same time, allows medusa to be aggressive early game. You can also auto attack cancel with this ability if there is no minion wave present for a small burst of damage. AA -> AS -> AA

Your dash, very useful for chasing enemies, peeling (it has a stun), escaping (be careful when using it to escape as it does not go through enemies, stops at the first one it is easy to body block medusa), or burst damage in conjunction with your ult.

Ultimate - 2 viper shots - Lascrate - 2 viper shots
this is the all in wombo combo of Medusa's it will leave you exposed, but if it is a one on one they will very low after this (or most likely dead) Max this ability third.

Petrify
Medusa removes her mask revealing her true face, delivering a powerful blast from her horrifying Gorgon gaze. Enemies take damage and are stunned if they are looking at Medusa. Enemies not looking at Medusa take 75% damage and are slowed. Enemy gods that are killed during Medusa's gaze will turn to a stone statue and remain behind as a reminder to others.
Damage: 300/400/500/600/700 (+100% of your physical power)
Stun Duration: 2s
Movement Speed Slow: 20/25/30/35/40%
Slow Duration: 3s
Ability Type: Cone
Range: 70
Cooldown: 90 seconds
Cost: 100 mana

Her ultimate does a massive amount of damage (to enemies facing you) and a stun (to enemies facing you). Timing is critical on this ability, it has a small wind up and very skilled players can avoid it, if they are not otherwise occupied. It can be used for initiation, but I prefer to use it mid team fight as they are less likely to avoid the stun and damage. Put a ppint in this whenever possible.

I modified the "standard" hunter build to include the bridge items as well as notes about what items are sold to build the end build. I did test out rage over wind demon with a new buy order, I prefer the burst that wind demon provides over the consistent crit that rage adds

Personally feel Rage is best in a 2x crit build. The higher % chance from Rage allows you to go with only 2 items (the other obviously being Deathbringer, and opens up another item slot for something else, if you so want.

Rage's strength is when you're getting consistent kills/assists. It hits the same % chance as both PS and WD combined...but it doesn't have AS, so is best for gods with strong AS steroids that will help with the burst.

Poisoned Star is a common early crit item specifically for boxing exchanges in a 1v1 situation. With the lower crit chance, it's more common for a 3x crit build with DB and WD...because both PS and WD provide some very good AS, it's perhaps better for gods with somewhat weaker AS steroids.

Thank you for the advise on the guide. I changed the first build to just have the ability/shred aspect and removed crit. You are right you lose too much. I also adjusted the second build to add the higher power of warrior boots to the triple crit build.

Honestly though, I think your original build 1 concept has function. Not meta, but it's got a ton of power thanks to both Trans and SE, and you've got plenty of burst potential with Viper Shot to make use of crit.

In that direction, I would say your 1st build takes it in a different direction. This would be a true hybrid build. Any time you combine Trans and crit items, it makes the rest of your item selections more difficult, and you're going to be sacrificing something. That said, you cover the bases with core pen (Exe), and Soul Eater bridges the ability/basic attack gap by providing lifesteal with all damage output. Your attack speed is going to be down a bit compared to other basic attackers, but I feel that with the somewhat recent buff giving Viper Shot 4 hits, this should be okay for her burst with that crit in mind.

The one thing I might change in that build is to switch Warrior Tabi for Ninja Tabi. I think it could work well. It's definitely not meta, but it's also not a useless one. Your main focus will be spamming poke, having good CD for her ult, and doing her main damage via Viper Shot (often in combination with Lacerate setups).

Kriega is overall right about Wind Demon being better for a 3x crit build in combination with Deathbringer and Poisoned Star (which you have in your 2nd build), but 45% crit isn't bad. Back in the day a couple of seasons ago, 40% crit was the standard, and 3x crit wasn't very common.

I don’t understand why you would get crit in an ability based hunter build, and only 2 crit items at that. If you’re only building 2 crit items in a build then they should be Rage and Deathbringer. Wind Demon is better suited to triple crit builds. Alternative items you haven’t considered are Bloodforge and The Crusher.

SmiteFire & Smite

Smite is an online battleground between mythical gods. Players choose from a selection of gods, join session-based arena combat and use custom powers and team tactics against other players and minions. Smite is inspired by Defense of the Ancients (DotA) but instead of being above the action, the third-person camera brings you right into the combat. And, instead of clicking a map, you use WASD to move, dodge, and fight your way through the detailed graphics of SMITE's battlegrounds.